The San Jose Mercury News in an Editorial is telling readers to trash the plastic industry's attempt to overturn our plastic bag ban. Calling the initiative ' the early favorite for most disingenuous initiative of 2015', here are some of their points:

By delaying the ban for at least a year, the referendum means Californians will throw away another 18 billion bags. That will be more than $100 million in the plastic bag industry's pockets for an investment of just $3 million to collect the signatures, so the industry had nothing to lose. We hope voters see through it...

The referendum is yet another example of an out-of-state business abusing the state's initiative process. There is nothing grass-roots about it. The plastics industry paid the signature gatherers, and 98 percent of the money came from out of state. More than $500,000 came from Hylex Poly of South Carolina, the largest plastic-bag manufacturer in the nation.